Organization of telomeric and sub-telomeric regions of chromosomes from the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 173-183

  Chiurillo, Miguel Angel ^a,b   Cano, Isabel ^c   Da Silveira, Jose Franco ^c   Ramirez, Jose Luis ^a,b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b Fundacion Instituto de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Surface glycoproteins; Telomere organization; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COSMID; GENE MAPPING; HYBRIDIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAMINIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032954204     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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